Toy for playing with sand



Nov. 15, 1927.

K. GOTZ TOY FOR PL YING WITH SAND Filed may 15. 192s Patented Nov. 15,1927.

llNlTED STATES KONBAD eorz, or roars, GERMANY.

TOY FOR PLAYING WITH SAND.

Application filed May 15, 1926, Serial No. 109,388, and in GermanyJanuary 29, 1926.

playing with sand Up to new toys for series of individual usually.consisted of a differently shaped toy parts, the number of which was inaccordance with the size of the toy set as a Whole, and which were usedby the playing child for producing the known ing other structures onlywithin a certain limit, as with the toy parts present in the toy setalways only the same cakes can be formed, so that said toys can notoffer any further incitation after longer use.

By the present invention now a toy for playing with sand is produced,which enables a greater change in the shape of the figures to beproduced and accordingly serves for producing figures of different shapeand composed of a number of single parts. This improved toy is intendedespecially for fiat figures, that is to say, figures, the length or(and) the breadth of which exceeds their height more or lessconsiderably. More especially, it is intended for the reproduction ofanimals, men, and the like, in horizontal position.

In the accompanying drawing such toys are representedas employed for thereproduction of an elephant. Fig. 1 shows the outlines of an elephantcomposed of several individual parts, while Fig. 2 shows said partsbet'ore they are combined to the structure as a whole. Fig. 3 shows across-section through the toy parts with the tilled-in sand. Figures 4,5 and 6 show modifications. Such molds, which can be taken apart. havebeen used already for the production of snow figures. In the present in;vention however the parts of the mold are thus shaped, that variousfigures can be represented by the transposition of individual mold partsor by the employment of further mold parts respectively. Forinstance theelephant represented in Fig. 1 which is composed of the head portion a,the body portion Z), the rear portion 0, and the leg portions (Z and e,which all are shown separated in Fig. 2. Any one of these portions maybe replaced by another one having another shape or (and) size. Thus,'for instance, the elephant can be transformed into a building animal orother figures known to them but also by the useor' their imagination inconjuring and composing figures of phantastic shapes. This is true oftoy portions for the production of animals, as well as for theproduction of other animal objccts, for instance representations ofhuman beings, as in Figs. 5 and 6, which are composed of a body portion7", arm portions h, leg portions 9, and a head portion i (Fig. 5)

or 70 .(Fig. 6). All these portions may be replaced by other ones ofother shapes or (and) sizes, and even portions of human beings and ofanimals may be combined with each other according to the phantasy of achild on the one hand and the number of portions available on the otherhand.

I claim:

1. A toy sand mold comprising sections adapted when assembled to form afigure and to provide a mold presenting a flat reverse side and a convexobverse side, the walls of the convex side delineating a mold cavityopening through the reverse side and shaped to produce in the surface ofa body of sand :1 surface configuration in elevation of the outlinedfigure, said sections having meeting surfaces and adapted forinterchangeable use with other sections to change the form of thefigure.

2. A toy sand mold comprising sections simulating portions of an animalor other figure and adapted to be assembled to produce an image of thefigure in relief, each section having a convex obverse side and fiatreverse side, the walls of the convex sides of the sections delineatingcavities communicating with each other and collectively forming a moldchamber opening through the fiat side of the mold, the sections havingtransverse abutment surfaces.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature.

KONBAD eorz.

